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7 Sep 20
Sweden plans to invest billions of kronor in healthcare and help for the elderly, along with giving local governments large cash boosts, as the country recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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2 Sep 20
Cambodia has received approval on a $250m loan from the Asian Development Bank, to help with the country’s response to Covid-19.
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2 Sep 20
The French Government has warned that Lebanon has eight weeks to outline its governmental reforms if it is to receive disaster relief following the explosion that rocked the nation’s capital Beirut...
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2 Sep 20
The UK will reform the body that scrutinises its aid spending as it merges its international development department with the Foreign Office, the government has announced.
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28 Aug 20
Japanese prime minster Shinzo Abe is to resign as leader of the nation due to ill health.
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25 Aug 20
Bank of Zambia governor Denny Kalyalya was sacked by Zambian president Edgar Lungu over the weekend, as the country continues discussions with the International Monetary Fund.
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18 Aug 20
A $1bn loan will help India build a modern high-speed rail system around its capital city, the Asian Development Bank has said after it approved the financing deal.
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13 Aug 20
Kyrgyzstan should “aggressively” strengthen its health, social protection and employment systems if it is to meet the development challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, a report has urged.
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7 Aug 20
The world’s largest multilateral development banks committed $61.6bn of climate finance in 2019, a joint report has shown.
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7 Aug 20
Disaster relief to help Beirut rebuild after the blast killed at least 145 people and left 300,000 homeless will be conditional on Lebanon enacting anti-corruption reforms, French president Emmanuel...
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4 Aug 20
CIPFA’s chief economist Jeffrey Matsu argues that the pandemic represents “time for a reboot” in the way we think about development.
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3 Aug 20
Barcelona is pursuing 40 climate action projects to help the city’s ‘green recovery’ from the Covid-19 crisis and meet its environmental commitments, after declaring a climate emergency earlier this...
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3 Aug 20
Southeast Asian governments have been urged to address the “fiscal termites” making it difficult to support their citizens through the economic crisis caused by Covid-19.
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31 Jul 20
Covid-19 has shown that South Africa needs to improve its social protection system to ensure everyone living in poverty is supported, economists have argued in a report into the country.
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24 Jul 20
The economic damage caused by Covid-19 has led to the UK cutting its international aid budget for 2020 by £2.9bn.
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16 Jul 20
Further high-level spending on health and social assistance programmes will be needed in Indonesia once the Covid-19 pandemic is over, the World Bank has said.
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7 Jul 20
Global poverty is rising despite “triumphalism” about its perceived decline, according to a global report from a former United Nations official, who also released specific reports on Malaysia and...
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7 Jul 20
Proponents of universal basic income believe their case has been strengthened by the sudden shock of the pandemic, with several countries implementing emergency schemes, but what form should it take...
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2 Jul 20
Nearly $8bn of aid has been raised for Syria in just one day at a donor conference in Brussels.
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19 Jun 20
Egypt is pushing forward with plans to create a universal health insurance system to support its most vulnerable citizens, with the first phase financed by a loan from the World Bank.
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16 Jun 20
Development organisations have criticised the UK government’s decision to merge its Department for International Development with its Foreign Office, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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9 Jun 20
EU members failed to meet their international aid targets in 2019, and the European Council has confirmed that greater efforts are now needed in light of the Covid-19 pandemic’s economic impact on...
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2 Jun 20
Investment in education and public health will be vital for post-coronavirus recovery, the World Bank has claimed.
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29 May 20
United Nations agencies working in Yemen have called for financial help, suggesting most of their programmes in the country face running out of money “within weeks”, following a slump in donations...
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14 May 20
A UN agency has called for basic income schemes to be implemented immediately in Latin America, to help people deal with the fallout of Covid-19 and to avoid “another lost decade”.